It's been one year already?!

Saturday 3/21/09 was our One year anniversary! I will have to post some pictures later, as I said before, we haven't been able to find our camera in a few weeks, so we took some pictures with our phone, and we still need to upload them onto our computers.

Nick and I each took off 4 days from work to be able to spend some time together to relax. Our lives have been so busy lately with work, church callings, Nick's school, etc etc. that we just needed to take a break.


We started our weekend on Friday by going to Adagio Spa and Salon in Barrington for a couples massage. The place is wonderful, and just what we needed. With the couples massage, you get a half hour in the Sauna before your massage, which felt really nice on my achy muscles. (my back has been sore from work) It was very romantic, and just perfect for celebrating our first year together.

That night we went out to my favorite place for dinner -Panera! :) and had some great soup and sandwiches. MMMmmMM! I am so happy that they built one in Dover. No longer do I have to drive 30 minutes just for some great soup!

Saturday, we of course had the top of our wedding cake, which was absolutely delicious! I had forgotten how good it was. We had a strawberry cake for our wedding cake (my favorite) We decked out the occasion, by me putting on my wedding dress,-or rather, just barely squeezing into it. lol it was definitely an "I now officially need to start losing some weight" moment. We used the toasting glasses we used at our wedding, as well as the cake sering utensils from our wedding. It was a nice way to remember the day we were married.

That evening we went out to the movies to see Knowing, an AMAZING movie btw. very suspenceful, but the ending was beautiful and had what I like to think of as a subtle LDS theme to it. I don't want to ruin it, so I won't say anymore than that. Except GO SEE IT :)

After the movie, we headed over to the Olive Garden for dinner. Besides the hour long wait, it was very nice. I recommend the Chicken Carbonera. It was fabulous! Nick's choice...not so good-lol. He doesn't remember the name of it, but it was some shrimp over angel hair pasta. Thank goodness for the salad and breadsticks!

We also spent the weekend watching our new favorite show, The Ledgend of the Seeker on my laptop, as it doesn't play on TV until about 1am around here. :( Needless to say, we're all caught up! The show is based off of the Terry Goodkind, Sword of Truth novels. Nick has read a ton of them and absolutely loves them, so when he heard that they were making a tv show out of it, OF COURSE we had to watch it! :) It really is a great show though. Think of it as, LOTR with a different plot line. I hope that it becomes more popular so that they will keep up the series. There are 11, VERY LONG, books in the series, so they have plenty of material to go off of! :)

All in all, it was a great, and most of all, RELAXING weekend.

-pictures to come!